Maharishi doesn't teach concentration (dharana), Kriya Yoga does! In Kriya,
it's the concentration that LEADS to a state called meditation (dhyana).
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote:
Here is proof that MMY adhered to Patanjali’s definition of sanyama.
YS 3.1 deša-bandhaš-cittasya-dhâranâ
: deša = locus, place, spot
: bandha = bind, fasten, cohere
: chitta = individual consciousness
: dhâranâ = holding, focusing
Dhâranâ is binding the mind to a place (or “Holding” is the placement of
consciousness)
Vyasa sez:
Dharana is binding the mind to a place. It is binding the mind, AS A PURELY
MENTAL PROCESS, to the navel circle, the heart lotus, the light in the head,
the tip of the nose, the tip of the tongue, and other such locations; and to
external objects.
Shankara sez:
Dhâranâ is binding the mind to one place. Binding to one place means binding
it there and it is the mind that is to be bound.
The commentator (Vyasa) gives details, binding to the navel circle all the
vital currents meet there in the form of a circle, so it is called the circle
of the navel. On the form of the heart lotus, the light in the head. The door
of the nadi nerve-channel of the head is radiant, and so it is called a light.
To the tip of the nose, the tip of the tongue, and to other such locations, and
to external objects, such as the moon. To these the mind is bound.
The mental process (vritti) of the mind, held in those places without being
dispersed, is called dhâranâ, as a purely mental process. It functions simply
as the IDEA of that place without any disturbance or viksepa.
YS 3.2 tatra pratyaya-ekatânatâ dhyânam
tatra = therein or “in regard to”
pratyaya = idea, notion
eka = one
tânatâ = extension, stretching
(here one-directionality)
dhyâna = meditative absorption
Continuity of the mind there is meditation.
